Embodied activisms : performative expressions of political and social action /: performative expressions of political and social action. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel.
• Editors: Newsom, Victoria A; Lengel, Lara Martin
• Contents: Table of Contents Ouverture: Embodied Activisms Victoria A. Newsom & Lara Martin Lengel Section I: Theorizing Embodied Activisms Chapter 1: Centuries of In/Visibility: Origins of Embodied Activism as Theory and Practice Victoria A. Newsom, Lara Martin Lengel, and Desiree A. Montenegro Chapter 2: Police Accountability Activism as Feminist Ethics: Theorizing Non-Violent Embodied Witnessing; Mary Angela Bock Chapter 3: Visual Disruptions as Embodied Activism: Leisure Spectacle Demonstration Casey R. Schmitt Chapter 4: The [De]meaning of Incorruptible Flesh: Marginalized Bodies and the Performance of Desire Billy Huff & Margaret Cavin Hambrick Chapter 5: Lay Down Your 'Body Burdens' and Write: (Re)Forming Environmental Science Through Narratives of Toxicity and Healing Arlene Plevin Section II: Witnessing, Remembering Chapter 6: Palestinian Dedications, Commitments, and Persistence: Decolonial Memory-work During the Seventieth Anniversary of the Nabka Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik Chapter 7: Embodied Witnessing and the Struggle for Memory in Budapest’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Szabadságszínpad Protests Natalie Bennie Chapter 8: An Actor-Network Approach: The Role of Art in Public Spaces in the Gezi Protests Nora Suren Section III: Silence and In/Visibility Chapter 9: A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest: Analyzing Intersectionality in Silence-Body-Image Jordin Clark Chapter 10: Embodied (L)Activism: Mothering and/as Embodied Nourishing Molly Wiant Cummins Chapter 11: Subversive Silence: Productive Discomfort as Embodied Activism Sakina Jangbar Chapter 12: Emerging Activisms: Responding to Current and Future Crises Desiree A. Montenegro, Victoria A. Newsom, and Lara Martin Lengel
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.484; Social movements; Social action; Political participation; Pressure groups
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793616531
• Related ISBNs: 9781793616524
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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